[kingbob]

Well, the kit just arrived. First impressions: holy sweet mother of all things transformable...

This is not a kit for a beginner. The instructions are in japanese, and in a very compact, slightly confusing format. The main frame of the body is pre-assembled, is coloured silver grey, but has lots of details picked out in silver, gold, etc. The skeleton is also fully articulated and poseable. Lots of the parts on the sprues are already painted, either with flame pattern, autobot emblems, details picked out in various colours etc.

Looks like the body mostly snaps together, but i can see it would need glue to stop pieces coming loose.

I also measured one of the tires (which are rubber), and my size estimate was a bit out. Based on scaling the kit tire up to match a Tamiya 1/14 tire, the overall height would be 840mm!

Kit is 300 parts, plus however many the assembled frame is made up of, which i'd say would have to be 40ish.

Beginning to think i might be biting off more than i can chew!